What Is This And This and this?

This is a five fold 'quiz'. What is it and what does it represent and what is it made from and what is the glaze, and what is its country of origin? Some of the answers are easy, others not too much. No screen shots.

My first thought was that it was a piece by Richard Zakin, then I saw the carving.
The clay is porcelain, carved, then glazed with a Celadon glaze. It is some kind of strainer or funnel, and is upside down when in use.
What do I win?
Tom[TJR].

thanks for the side view. It reminds me of some of those strange ceramic medical devices I saw at the Medical Museum in Switzerland.
Not Chinese with such carving with a celadon, then maybe Korean?
Is it a hat that one would put flowers in like a Dutch tulip holder?
The courtier would be decorated with flowers?
arcia

Ok, the place of origin is Japan. One answer left and I am holding off for the one last answer. A hint: Chris was the closest. So you must keep thinking about it. Even though this vessel is almost 400 years old its use can still be employed today.

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life".